Fresh installation of FC4 on a FC3 box

[satimis]

Hi folks,

I have a running FC3 box with following config on HD

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2              14        2563    20482875   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            2564        2690     1020127+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4            2691        4865    17470687+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5            2691        3907     9775521   83  Linux
/dev/hda6            3908        4637     5863693+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7            4638        4865     1831378+  83  Linux

# df -hT

Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2     ext3     20G  7.8G   11G  43% /
/dev/hda1     ext3     99M   12M   83M  13% /boot
none         tmpfs    125M     0  125M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5     ext3    9.2G  3.4G  5.5G  38% /home

/dev/hda6 and /dev/hda7 are for LFS and LFS-LiveCD respectively.

Now I want to fresh-install FC4 (not upgrade) but retaining /home. Please advise what will be the easy and safe method to do it. Any pointer will be appreciated.

TIA

BR
satimis

[Thetargos]

Select manual partitionning at the installer, you'll only have to modify your partition's for the mount point, so you can select the home partition to be left alone under /home and the paritions you are interested on formatting (including swap) to be formatted. Disk Druid is a very powerful tool, I've never knew why it is not part of the installed system... In any case, hope this helps.

[satimis]

Hi Thetargos,

Tks for your advice.

Running
# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hda2
and
mke2fs /dev/hda1

I can erase FC3 / (root) and /boot respectivcely. But I have no idea how to;

1) make/direct the installation-CD installing FC4 on /dev/hda2 and /boot on /dev/hda1
2) link the existing /home to FC4 replacing the newly installed /home (FC4) which will be installed on /dev/hda2 during installing FC4

Besides I need keeping /dev/hda6 and /dev/hda7 untouched.

I have been googling the relevant document and could not find it. Because once started I could not revert all steps performed. Any advice.

TIA

satimis

[Thetargos]

It is quite simple. During installation select manual partitioning to start the Disk Druid program, from it you don't need to change your partitions or erase your partition table, it will aid you to set the mount point for your patitions and whether they should or should not be formatted. In a way is a front end for fdisk, but it also is usefull to say where things should be... So basically you select a partition there, click on modify and have the option to leave the partition's filesystem unchanged and then just asign the mount point, needless to say, you can say which partitions to be formatted too... so your disk won't be changed. That's how I've been installing Fedora since I last partitioned my disk with Red Hat 7.3